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What is an IT consultant? Roles, types, salaries, and how to become one

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An IT consultant is a technology professional who advises and supports business clients in designing, developing, and executing technology projects in service of business goals. As a result, making the shift to IT consulting can be a lucrative path to a fulfilling IT career. What is an IT consultant?

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

But I’m hoping that will help provide clarity to engineers and give them the opportunity to pick and choose which skills they want to work on first. We also offer step promotions, such as Software Engineer 1 to Software Engineer 2, which come when the engineer is proportionally far along their way to the next title.)

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

I haven’t had a chance to go back and interview the engineers about what they think about the new system yet, but I’d like to do so. Latest Update In April, the ladder only covered up to Technical Lead. We still need to add Principal Engineer for the engineer track, and specialty skills, but this is enough for a foundation.

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SAFe certification: launch your Scaled Agile Framework career

CIO

SAFe certification training Deciding on the right path and certifications rests on knowing what your organization needs, its maturity with SAFe, identifying gaps, and understanding your role. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.

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Rethinking the IT talent pipeline

CIO

Amanda Merola had zero technical background when she came to The Hartford in 2015, despite a natural interest in computers and a proclivity for problem-solving. Merola was accepted into the HartCode Academy’s inaugural class, spending months in bootcamps and self-directed training before landing a position as a junior coder.

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What it takes to win your first CIO role

CIO

Nafde was tapped at the onset to lead the technical integration of the two entities — an assignment he says served as a proof point that he was more than capable of executing larger responsibilities. Nafde points to a time when he was tasked with introducing the agile operating model to software engineering.

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Examining low-code/no-code popularity across Africa and its range of disruption for CIOs

CIO

“The general idea is that low-code/no-code is not yet mature enough to be used on a large scale because of its application to specific cases where security needs and constraints are low,” says Maximilien Kpodjedo, president of the CIO Association of Benin and digital adviser to Beninese president Patrice Talon.